Laura Kruskall (Nutrition Center) has been elected and appointed as the chair of the Dietitian Advisory Group of the Department of Health and Human Services, Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health. She has served as a member of this committee since 2010. The mission of the advisory group is to examine, consider, and make…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science), with co-editors Nuno Garoupa and Lydia Tiede, have published High Courts in Global Perspective: Evidence, Methodologies, and Findings in the University of Virginia Press "Constitutionalism and Democracy" series.  High Courts in Global Perspective pulls back the curtain on the interlocutors of…

Benjamin Edwards (Law) recently published a synopsis of his article "Supreme Risk" in the Duke FinReg Blog.  The post is based on an article forthcoming in the Florida Law Review.  It highlights how legal doctrines resurging with the post-Trump era Supreme Court pose a risk to the financial system.  

Michael Chin (Honors College) published a novel titled My Grandfather's an Immigrant, and So is Yours with Cowboy Jamboree Press. The novel is presented in a fragmented, collage-style format and combines a coming of age story with a meditation on larger discussions in American culture leading up to and in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published Ética, Política, y Migración (UACJ Press), which she co-edited with Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda and Roberto Sánchez Benítez. This open access book is one of the first Spanish-language texts to deal with immigration ethics as a central topic, and it foregrounds ethical issues of particular concern…

Ed Rangel (Dental) received recognition as an "Indirect Trainer" from the United Stated Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency for his outstanding performance in training during the global pandemic. The certificate he received states "Your exceptional knowledge, skills, and abilities set a benchmark of…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) has co-authored an article entitled, “Atopic dermatitis:  Preventing and managing the itch that rashes, and a case for the multi-theory model (MTM) for health behavior change for educational interventions” in the journal SKIN The Journal of Cutaneous Medicine in collaboration with…

John Starkey (Business) recently received the 2020 Senior Administrative Faculty Award from Lee Business School.  Every year the Lee Business School recognizes members of its administrative faculty and classified staff who have gone above and beyond to assist students, develop and run successful programs, and provide support to academic…

Benjamin Edwards (Law) published a short piece summarizing a recent article highlighting how the post-Trump era Supreme Court poses systemic risk to the global financial system in the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog. Many financial markets depend on the steady functioning of self-regulatory organizations. Yet these…